Respectfully sheweth [microform] : that in the year 1775, John Coffin, the grandfather of your memorialist ...

by: Coffin, William F. (William Foster), 1808-1878; Head, Edmund Walker, Sir, 1805-1868

Publication date: 1860

Topics: Coffin, John, 1729-1808, Coffin, William F. (William Foster), 1808-1878, Coffin, John, 1729-1808, Coffin, William F. (William Foster), 1808-1878, Claims, Réclamations

Publisher: [Ottawa? : s.n.]

Collection: university_of_alberta_libraries_microfilm; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto; microfilm; additional_collections

Digitizing sponsor: University of Alberta Libraries

Contributor: Canadiana.org

Language: English

A petition presented by the grandson of John Coffin, a loyalist from Quebec, praying for lands in Lower Canada claimed by his grandfather

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Cover title in ms.: To His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., Governor General of British North America, &c., the memorial of William F. Coffin, Esquire

At head of title in ms.: To His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Edmund Walker Head, Baronet, one of Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council, governor general of British North America, &c. &c. &c., the humble memorial of William Foster Coffin of the city of Ottawa, Esquire ..

Signed and dated in ms.: William F. Coffin. Ottawa 5 March 1860

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Archives of Canada

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